What’s the most unnecessarily anxiety-inducing email you’ve ever received at work? – 17 messages that messed with people’s heads

‘I’ve had shit like this from SMT. “We need to meet.” I ask for clarification. “Nothing to worry about.”

‘I have absolutely no patience for this kind of shit management and that behaviour made sure i was never going to be cooperative with him again (it didn’t last long; he was demoted a year later)’
-zq6

‘I had an email from my solicitor about a commercial lease I was due to sign, where I spotted a typo in a word. Her reply ‘THAT TYPO IS THE LEAST OF MY WORRIES, I HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THIS CONTRACT!’ Sent at 4:59pm!!!!!!!!! That exclamation mark kept me awake ALL NIGHT’
-foozyfelt

‘In May , an invitation to a meeting with HR, one day’s notice. Knew it was redundancy straight away and it was.’
-Wishmaster891

‘Got told we were being booked in for a ‘Business update’ then our bosses went offline. Turned out we were just moving from remote to in-office with a 20% pay rise, we all thought we were being laid off’
-Opposite_Pop_1090

‘Just before taking off for a 10 hour flight I got an email from work telling me that I was dismissed with immediate effect, was to repay them for my training, and needed to hand my passes to the security desk as soon as possible. 

’10 hours later, having gone through all five stages of grief, I landed to another email:

‘“Apologies, this was meant for someone else in the company with the same name as you.”’
-Opposite_Climate_342

‘3pm friday afternoon 15m teams invite from the big boss. No upfront info.

‘Turns out he was ecstatic to have procured Taylor Swift concert tickets for the team, but they were all on different nights so needed two people to help sort and fairly distribute the tickets between team members.

‘We were fuming and relieved in equal parts’
-hfenn

‘This year we’ve had a sudden and massively unpopular back-to-the-office announcement followed by a restructure which made dozens of people redundant and at least a hundred put at risk.

‘I got an email from the CEO entitled ‘Important update for the business’.

‘It was a fucking phishing test.’
-Osprey_Housing

‘I got one from my boss titled “Disciplinary hearing”. It was asking me to attend one to take a minute.’
-Drummk